A Creative Era

4. ____ _______ helped popularize photography.
6. In the early 1920s blues singers such as Mamie Smith, Gertrude “Ma’ Rainey, and _____ ______ brought blues music to a broader audience.
8. ____ originated among African American musicians in the south.
10. the _____ grew out of a long history of slave music and religious spirituals.
11. _____ ________ was another lost generation writer who wrote This Side of Paradise (1920).
13. ______ _________ was the period of great African American artistic accomplishment that began in the 1920s in the Harlem neighborhood of NYC.
14. “you are all a lost generation,” said poet Gertrude Stein to one such writer, ____ _________.
15. ____ _______ first one fame in the 1926 production Deep River, a “native opera with jazz”.

1. African American poet _______ _______ noted that jazz proclaimed, “why should I want to be white? I am a Negro–and beautiful!”
2. ______ ________ is what writers of the era became known as.
3. jazz clubs brought in the most famous jazz musicians of the era, including ___ ________, Ethel Waters, and Cab Calloway.
5. As blues music grew in popularity, New Orleans jazz musicians such as ____ _______ began to adopt some of its unique characteristics.
7. one of the most critically successful actors of the 1920s was ____ _______ who received praise for his title role in Eugene O’Neill’s drama Emperor Jones.
9. one of the most active Harlem Renaissance supporters was _____ _____ _______.
12. ___ __________ who’s a pianist began to wave jazz rhythms into his music